Man... I get them baaaaad!!!!!

Anyone have any strategies for prevention of hangovers mid-drinking (besides the obvious.... "don't drink, duh!")?

Or any advice on how to get rid of a hangover the next morning?

Hair of the dog is the best way I have found.

Enlighten me!

"Shock me... Make me feel better..."

Don't drink things that you've had bad experiences with (other than plain ole overconsumption).

Pace yourself; eat.

Take B12 vitamins 6-8 hours before hand and after.

Caffiene

Drink lots of water - rehydrate!



I can't have:
-red wine (the tannins give me headaches)
-champaigne (headaches)
-dark hard liquors (whisky, bourbon, brandy, etc...; vodka, gin, rum - OK)
-excessivly sweet things too (jack n' coke/rum n' coke = PUKE)

I love tropical girly drinks. I can spend a whole evening at Hala Kahiki escaping the Flatlands.

There's this pill you can take that makes it so you don't get hangovers. It's called Chaser. I also found this nifty site for ya.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/han ... gover.html

I'm pretty good at stopping the intake & switching to cranberry & soda at some point. But if I'm heading to bed & I'm out of it, I force myself to drink 3 pints of water. I get up in about three hours & pee for 30 minutes, drink another pint of water, and wake up five hours later feeling like a crisp twenty dollar bill.

gatorade. before bed, drink a ton of gatorade. then when you wake up, drink a bunch more. works for me, mostly.

something i've heard and that seems to make sense is that smoking makes things worse. so try and not smoke as much while you're out drinking, if possible.

i dunno about the caffeine recommendation geiginni makes, since i've been told that a big part of a hangover is your brain being dehydrated, and caffeine only serves to further dehydrate you. this is why folks will recommend water, or also, gatorade. hydration is important.

supposedly if you drink a pint of water for every drink you have, that helps a lot. but that seems too hard to pull off.

From a man who went ten years with more than 300 hangovers a year, I found the best way for me to get rid of feeling like my skull was opened up and the sun was kicking it's ass, was a ten dollar bag of china white. Snorted, so you don't have the opportunity to O.D. Just don't catch a habit..and/or die...Have fun. Drink one for me.

When this option was not available, I'd usually head to the fridge, make a tall one, and sit on the white anaconda for a few while a drank and shit guts at the same time. And plenty of weed . be sure to smoke plenty of weed. Then , you can be totally useless. cheers.

I enjoy mid-level hangovers in a bizarre way - they're usually a sign of a good night. Although when I get the pukeys, that ain't so much fun.

Another thing I've noticed: your resistance to hangovers gets worse as you get older, and their effects get progressively worse

Have you ever tried the Alka-Seltzer Morning Relief? It's basically a solid shot of caffeine and painkillers, but I'll be damned if it isn't impressive. Usually the coffee and ibuprofin overload the next morning only makes me feel "mostly human" at best, but that Alka-Seltzer Morning Relief is the fucking ticket for me. Makes me feel, dare I say... bouyant. I have trouble finding it consistently around here, so when I find it I grab a few boxes. Got my last batch at Drugstore.com. Long live Alka-Seltzer Morning Relief! Is to make the bad brain aches go away she does!

Oh yeah, since the actual post was about night-before stuff, before bed I usually do a big glass of water and 4 ibuprofens, and that helps considerably, since the hangover is mostly dehydration. Then the next morning, Alka-Seltzer Morning Relief, baby. It's the new crack.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:gatorade. before bed, drink a ton of gatorade. then when you wake up, drink a bunch more. works for me, mostly.

I second this. I try to make sure there's a bottle of Gatorade waiting at home whenever I go out to drink now, and when I remember to hit it up before bed I am fine the next day. Magic juice, it is.

geiginni wrote:I love tropical girly drinks. I can spend a whole evening at Hala Kahiki escaping the Flatlands.

Who'd have thought Geiginni is a Girl-Drink Drunk!

I just make sure to drink plenty of water and take a decent multivitamin before, after and in the morning. One thing that helps shitloads if I have the time is to make myself a big plate of raw vegetables such as celery, cucumber, tomato and carrots for dinner. The water content in the celery and cucumber helps to hydrate you and the nutrients don't hurt either. Also, sleep as long as possible and eat something when you get up unless you have a tendency to vomit. I seem to have a cast-iron stomach, I have never vomited from drinking no matter how much I wanted to. I've passed out from near-alcohol poisoning and still not vomited. I suppose it's a blessing and a curse.